Junior Member

joined:Feb 8, 2005
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Reseller - Still not back after Feb. 2nd. We have basically gone from 15K-20K refs per day from Google down to about 100-200. It is a mystery why. Yahoo, MSN, and Ask still provide a great amount of traffic. Therefore, I cannot change to much. Hopefully this update will bring some better news.

New User

joined:Sept 22, 2005
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Hi Guys, We are having the same problems. I hate relying on Google so heavily, because they have the power to trash your income in a nanosecond. I sincerely hope the glitch rectifies, or were in trouble.

Senior Member

Google will force people more and more into AdWords, SEO will be dead soon.

Salon99

12:27 pm on Sept 22, 2005 (gmt 0)

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My first post, but it's obvious that people are suffering here, so I thought I would chip in, hopefully in a re-assuring sense.

We host a couple of significant scientific sites, not commercial sites I might add. We wouldn't know SEO if it hit us in the face, so we have done nothing whatsoever to justify any type of penalty or downgrade.

One of these sites has today disappeared from Google to all intents and purposes. Major searches on key terms which the site covers fail to show it, even though in value terms it should be #1 on these, as it remains on Yahoo and MSN. It does appear on semi-related strange search terms though.

This doesn't lose us any money, but it is somewhat inconvenient for the public in this niche area, as they would expect to find us. There is probably more harm done to Google in this respect. Peculiar.

The re-assurance is that I would be surprised if this state of affairs remained, as there must be many many other key sites adrift as well. It cannot help Google.

Best of luck to you all.

Dayo_UK

12:30 pm on Sept 22, 2005 (gmt 0)

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>>>>The re-assurance is that I would be surprised if this state of affairs remained, as there must be many many other key sites adrift as well. It cannot help Google.

Erm - this does not re-assure - that has been happening for months for lots of sites.

It just underlines the difficulties that Google is having.

However, I have been here long enough to try not to think on a daily basis. I will wait for a while yet.

Junior Member

joined:Feb 8, 2005
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It can be frustrating when your site disappears from the serps and you are left with trying to figure out why. It can be even more frustrating when you employ no SEO and think you are following all the rules. Then all of sudden you are caught up in some glitch or wide-sweeping action of Google where they are trying to get rid of a certain groups of sites (scrapers, 302s, bad 301, bad links, dup content, etc...). What to do? Not sure. Submit reinclusion request? Many sites do not get removed from the index. However, there pages get pushed into oblivion. Therefore, if you submit a reinclusion request, you will get the obvious email back from Google saying you are in the index.

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joined:July 8, 2005
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Awful waste of 6 years, just leave the site up and concentrate on MSN and Yahoo, Google isnt the be all and end all of everything, infact of late sites I look after have been getting 5 - 6 even 50% more traffic than from Google.

Just because the rubber falls off the end of your pencil does mean you have to buy a new one.